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In this section of the website Frome people talk about the domestic and housing conditions of the past.

DOMESTIC AND HOUSING MEMORIES

  • Dorothy Hawker

    Dorothy Hawker remembers family life in Frome in the past

    Dorothy Hawker discusses the pleasures of raising a young family in Frome and the walks, picnics and trips to the seaside they enjoyed

  • Margaret Wharlow recalls being a young mother in Frome in the 1940s

    Margaret Wharlow looks back to the time when her children were young and she went to Mothers' Union meetings once a month

  • Diana Ingram remembers when married women had to give up their jobs

    Diana Ingram describes how her husband told her she had to give up her secretarial job at Butler and Tanner when they got married.

  • Daisy Bane remembers her Frome childhood, work and marriage

    Daisy Bane left school at 14 and went to work at Houstons, a job she enjoyed but which she gave up in 1939 when she got married

  • Trevor Weston

    Trevor Weston describes his childhood in the Trinity area of Frome

    Trevor Weston was raised in the 'Ope', off Selwood Road, and remembers the streets and shops and the games that children used to play

  • Ron White talks about growing up in Waterloo in the centre of Frome

    Ron White discusses the mill owners' and mill workers' houses that used to be in Waterloo, and describes the interior of his own childhood home

  • BS talks about his childhood growing up in the Trinity area of Frome

    BS discusses growing up in a house in the Trinity area of Frome, which some people used to call 'Chinatown'

  • Allan Fairhurst talks about growing up in the Selwood Road area of Frome

    Allan Fairhurst lived in a two-up and two-down cottage with an outside toilet, shared outside water tap, and washday boiler

  • Winifred Fairhurst recalls her happy childhood in Frome

    Winifred Fairhurst remembers her early life in York Street and talks about growing up in a family of four brothers and three sisters

  • Cliff Ellis talks about growing up in the Keyford area of Frome

    Cliff Ellis looks back at his childhood living in Keyford and recalls many of the buildings and businesses around his home

  • Tony and Sylvia Austin remember their cottage near St John's School

    Tony and Sylvia Austin talk about life in Church Lane in their one-up and one-down cottage, without an indoor water supply or electricity

  • Gwen Venn talks about living in her small cottage in Willow Vale

    Gwen Venn remembers how her kitchen window was six feet from the railway line and how she made tea for a passing train driver.

  • Dorothy Russell moved to Vicarage Street when she got married

    Dorothy Russell talks about what life was like in her two-roomed cottage on Vicarage Street, with a shared toilet in the back yard

  • Gerald Quartley remembers growing up in the rural outskirts of Frome

    Gerald Quartley was born in Whitewell Road in Frome when it was still surrounded by farmland. He recalls his home there, which had no electricity or gas

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